I have to head in to the office all night tonight but I don't suppose I could interest any of you in a Lotus 79 race around Watkins Glen or similar tomorrow afternoon? With it being Week 13, I've got a hankerin' for some Open Wheel racing and well, the Lotus 79 just feels like the most manly machine available.

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...Just imagine: Most of them used to have engines in the front, a seat instead of a bed, and no wings. Not like cars at all."Nah, he didn't ram you, he rubbed you; and rubbin' son, is racin'."

Forgetful wrote:I think I could talk myself in to it but I don't know how many of us even own the beast.

What a cruel thing to call her; she's pretty to me!

No, just.. no. The Lotus 79 is a monster but slap a high downforce setup on it and maybe pop in a click or two of front wing and I find she behaves nicely. I'm not saying I am fast, no no no, but I do feel like I have a good handle on the car.

If getting sideways while steering with 1 hand and man-handling your way through a very generous gearbox in a shouty fire-breathing dragon of a machine is your idea of fun, it's $14.95 extremely well spent.

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...Just imagine: Most of them used to have engines in the front, a seat instead of a bed, and no wings. Not like cars at all."Nah, he didn't ram you, he rubbed you; and rubbin' son, is racin'."

Some of you may be happy to know that we have been working on porting iRacing to run on Mac and Linux. By rough estimates Apple and Linux make up between 15% - 25% of the market space and as far as we can tell nothing like iRacing exists on those platforms. We are actually far enough along with this project that we have our first build to test. This is exciting for iRacing because we could see a nice jump in members with this port.

If you are a Mac or Linux user and want to get involved with testing we would appreciate the help. Please email chris.weidner@iracing.com with your system specifications and what controllers you have for these systems and he will get back to you if we would like your help.

Some of you may be happy to know that we have been working on porting iRacing to run on Mac and Linux. By rough estimates Apple and Linux make up between 15% - 25% of the market space and as far as we can tell nothing like iRacing exists on those platforms. We are actually far enough along with this project that we have our first build to test. This is exciting for iRacing because we could see a nice jump in members with this port.

If you are a Mac or Linux user and want to get involved with testing we would appreciate the help. Please email chris.weidner@iracing.com with your system specifications and what controllers you have for these systems and he will get back to you if we would like your help.

Interesting. I'll check it out, but I'm prepared to just race booted up into Windows. Macs generally run the same game faster as a PC than under OSX.

Next time I'm in Kamloops, do you mind if I swing by to check out the shifter and button box?

Seriously though, DSD lives only 2 hours away and I'm in his city a few times a year for work, I've often thought about emailing him to see if I could swing by to see his product and give them a test drive. Every time I get ready to email him I stop myself because I assume he'll think I'm some kind of punk weirdo.